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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Henry,</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Americans don’t need the "S" in HSR to define socialism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>They can clearly see that they are about to be suffocated by socialism in every new policy coming at them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>HSR is just one facet of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>And I disagree with your assessment that people are only opposing HSR because they personally resent somebody getting a free train ride.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It is not about personal grudges.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">    </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Paul,</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">You said this:</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="background-color: #888888;"><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">“…but what is the correct action at this juncture -- to spend money we don't have on more projects, worthwhile they may be?  Yes we can borrow and run deficits, but when the accumulated deficit reaches around 100% of GNP, you are pretty much maxed out because the interest payments are going to bleed you white.”</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not according to the proponents of economic stimulus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>We are being told that the solution to our economic problems is indeed to spend more money that we don’t have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>That is the magic of stimulus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It takes a dollar and turns it into two dollars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">    </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">You say this downturn is just another cycle that we will come out of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I would not be so sure of that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It might be just a cycle of some sort, but there are some cycles that begin and end nations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></span></span></p>
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